Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it.
AIDAN CHAMBERSThere are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
More Aidan Chambers Quotes
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How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as ‘facts.’ Yes, I know that in this case one ‘fact’ was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a ‘fact,’ and act on it as if it were true.
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And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
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We resent being faced with facts we’d prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven’t.
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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page – sometimes every word as well.
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They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who’s in them.
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Like just now. Like now. How is it possible? Can you love someone more and more and at the same time, all the time, love them as much as it’s possible to love someone?
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Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
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He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
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Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
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I don’t actually think “true love” is such a good term because love can only be true. If it isn’t true it can’t be love.
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There are times when you don’t know yourself. There are times when you don’t want to know yourself.
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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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As someone who knows her mind and who I envy for that. As someone who is strong in herself without seeming to need anyone else to help her. As someone who makes me thinks and unsettles me in a way that makes me feel more alive.
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